It was opened by Madam Qiu, Deputy Director of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, and attended by Madam Wang Ning, Director of the Shenzhen Virtual University Park, and UCLan Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dr Graham Baldwin, who gave a keynote speech.

Representatives from the British Consulate-General Guangzhou, Chief Representative of CBBC Guangzhou Tom Simpson, representatives from CBBC Shenzhen, and researchers involved in UCLan’s joint projects from Sichuan University, USTC and Fudan University were all in attendance.

It is the second time a symposium on nanotechnology has taken place in Shenzhen.